Day 13 Bible Reading
Genesis 27 & 28, Matthew 10: 32-42, Psalm 9: 1-6
I do not have a specific verse for today to reflect upon,
but instead I want to reflect on what happened in Genesis 27. God has a plan
for each of our lives. He had a plan for Esau and Jacob, where Esau would bow
down to Jacob. What happens in Genesis 27 shows us that no matter what we try
to do, God’s plan will not be thwarted. He will figure out a way for his plan
to be fulfilled. Isaac wanted to bless Esau and instead, ended up blessing
Jacob by the deceit of Jacob on instructions from his mother Rebekah. Why Rebekah
did this is unclear, but she did it anyway. I know if I look back on my own
life there are things that I wanted that I didn’t get, and I was unhappy at the
time thinking that God wasn’t granting me my desires. It was only in hindsight
where I realized that what happened had put me on the best path towards getting
the thing I wanted, but in a roundabout way. And when I explored it further, it
turned out that the roundabout way gave me abundance of what I wanted. One good
example is when I moved to the state where I live today. I had a five-year
plan, and it ended getting delayed by a year. When the delay happened, I was
really bummed out. But what ended up happening is in that year delay, my
company did really well and I ended up receiving a large financial bonus before
my move. I had more than money that I needed to move, and that extra money made
my move very comfortable and left me in a great financial situation. So God has
his own plan for my move and his way ended up benefitting me greatly, more than
my own plan would have done. I wish I had had more faith at the time in God,
and not been so unhappy and railing against God for the delay in my plan. But
perhaps that was the lesson for me. Don’t look at delays in what I want as an
unhappy event. Instead, I need to have more faith in God that there was a very good
reason for the delay and that God is always going to give me what I want but
only in a way that will benefit me the most.
